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Hundreds of thousands of people have been stopped by police simply because of their color, religion or national origin.

Stopping or interrogating someone simply based on the color of their skin, religion or ethnicity not only violates the 14th Amendment, it also detracts law enforcement resources from the detection of real threats. It furthermore builds a wall of distrust between minority communities and police departments.

New legislation soon to be introduced in Congress would address this practice and ensure people are not unlawfully singled out because of their skin color, religion or ethnicity.

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But, if non-whites commit more crimes than whites, isn't that a logical thing to do?

Do you think that 95 year old white grandmothers should be searched as throughly at the airport as Mohammed Watta, the 25 yaer old "Student" from Syria?

--------------------In response to an attack killing 15 American Servicemen
PsiloKitten said:
Just give em a little more time, the iraqis are making great progress. And this is unorganized. Wait till they get organized.

Quote:lysergic said:Do you think that 95 year old white grandmothers should be searched as throughly at the airport as Mohammed Watta, the 25 yaer old "Student" from Syria?

Quote:angryshroom replied:Sorry, but, if you think that way, I would say your a racist.

So, if a person is rational, he is a racist?

Quote:Racisim is the thing of the past...

Not as long as there is affirmative action, blacks attacking whites because of their skin color and Arabs blowing up innocent women and children because they happen to be Jewish (feel free to switch the victims and perpetrators around so you can get your mind around the concept).

Quote:How do you really know that non-whites are commiting more crimes. They might be ARRESTED more for crimes...but actually commiting is a different story.

Compare crime statistics in non-white neighborhoods with white neighborhoods. Do you honestly think that whites are travelling to Hispanic and Black neighborhoods to commit crimes? Or would it be more realistic to say that Hispanics and Blacks victimize their own more often than whites?

Quote:Everyone should take a People of color class at their local college. It really opens your eyes up.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha . You should get out of college and spend some time in the REAL WORLD.

--------------------To call humans 'rational beings' does injustice to the term, 'rational.' Humans are capable of rational thought, but it is not their essence. Humans are animals, beasts with complex brains. Humans, more often than not, utilize their cerebrum to rationalize what their primal instincts, their preconceived notions, and their emotional desires have presented as goals - humans are rationalizing beings.

Quote:lysergic said:But, if non-whites commit more crimes than whites, isn't that a logical thing to do?

Do you think that 95 year old white grandmothers should be searched as throughly at the airport as Mohammed Watta, the 25 yaer old "Student" from Syria?

I don't know how many times I heard people try to compare an old white lady to a twenty something Arab male - which is ruling out non-Arabs as terrorists - racist. I doubt when Richard Reid, a Jamaican-Briton with very long hair had any troubles going through customs.

Maybe if you could show that elderly grand-folk have commited acts o fterrorism, that last point would have made sense.

It's funny how people are against "profiling", because blacks don't commit "more" crimes than whites, yet the reason they use fo rblacks commiting more crimes, is because they are poor. Which way is it? (Note: That wasn't directed at Zaphid)

Zaphed - Lets say that you were a Hamas freedom fighter, and you were told that today, an infiltrator was going to come blow up your Peaceful bomb factory. The first five people you saw were swarthy arab looking people, the sixth, was light skinned with dark black hair. No profiling here Mohammed, who would ya thinkg it might be?

--------------------In response to an attack killing 15 American Servicemen
PsiloKitten said:
Just give em a little more time, the iraqis are making great progress. And this is unorganized. Wait till they get organized.

The problem with "Post-9/11" racial profiling (which seems to get all entwined with 'generational profiling') is that it excludes non-Arabs as possible terrorist suspects; it plays on the negative stereotype of Arabs. Of course an old white woman is probably not a terrorist - just as an old Arab women is also an unlikely terrorist operative. I'm surprised people who advocate racial profiling actually use that term.

Follow the strain isolation technique on Let's Grow Mushrooms, and then select sectors early which are brown in color. By the second or third transfer, you'll see stones developing, and this is only about 1 month after the original swipe of spores on agar.

Now, take each stone and move it to a new dish. Soon, the mycelium will grow out and you'll see fresh stones developing, and if they're good strains, the sclerotia is forming long before the mycelium reaches the edge of the plate. Pick strains which form four or five stones within two weeks and use these for your grain masters. -- RR

Follow the strain isolation technique on Let's Grow Mushrooms, and then select sectors early which are brown in color. By the second or third transfer, you'll see stones developing, and this is only about 1 month after the original swipe of spores on agar.

Now, take each stone and move it to a new dish. Soon, the mycelium will grow out and you'll see fresh stones developing, and if they're good strains, the sclerotia is forming long before the mycelium reaches the edge of the plate. Pick strains which form four or five stones within two weeks and use these for your grain masters. -- RR

Follow the strain isolation technique on Let's Grow Mushrooms, and then select sectors early which are brown in color. By the second or third transfer, you'll see stones developing, and this is only about 1 month after the original swipe of spores on agar.

Now, take each stone and move it to a new dish. Soon, the mycelium will grow out and you'll see fresh stones developing, and if they're good strains, the sclerotia is forming long before the mycelium reaches the edge of the plate. Pick strains which form four or five stones within two weeks and use these for your grain masters. -- RR

Ouch, the tables have turned on me! Well crafted pinky. It likely means something to be a white westerner, then again, what do I know. I'm just a young, white man (sarcasm). Maybe I'm just used to having a silver spoon in my mouth.

Follow the strain isolation technique on Let's Grow Mushrooms, and then select sectors early which are brown in color. By the second or third transfer, you'll see stones developing, and this is only about 1 month after the original swipe of spores on agar.

Now, take each stone and move it to a new dish. Soon, the mycelium will grow out and you'll see fresh stones developing, and if they're good strains, the sclerotia is forming long before the mycelium reaches the edge of the plate. Pick strains which form four or five stones within two weeks and use these for your grain masters. -- RR

It has never occured to me that Thanksgiving is a religious holiday, if it is. I have never seen that much religious tone in the holiday - and even if it is, the general idea of it is being thankful for what we have in worldly terms.

Follow the strain isolation technique on Let's Grow Mushrooms, and then select sectors early which are brown in color. By the second or third transfer, you'll see stones developing, and this is only about 1 month after the original swipe of spores on agar.

Now, take each stone and move it to a new dish. Soon, the mycelium will grow out and you'll see fresh stones developing, and if they're good strains, the sclerotia is forming long before the mycelium reaches the edge of the plate. Pick strains which form four or five stones within two weeks and use these for your grain masters. -- RR